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2016-02-03

Vatic Note: This is no joke and serious as hell to us. Just another way to depopulate the planet using the economy and job losses to do so. This trade agreement is simply a transfer of our Constitutional rights and protections from the people to the corporations. Its pure unadulterated fascism at its finest. We must resist this agreement or we are going to contribute to our own demise as a nation and a people. Read this, and think on it hard and long and see if you don't agree?

This makes NAFTA look like a real trade agreement, which we all know was nothing more than a test run for this one below to see how we would take it. Unfortunately, we grumbled, but thats all and we lost more than we could ever get back again. That told the powers that be, we would not resist globalizing in this fashion and flip the rights and protections we enjoyed to some point, from we, the people, over to the corporate leaders of our capitalist system. Used to be it was based on "fair market capitalism", but with this below, it changes to legally protected fascism. You read and decide.

Proponents of the secretly
negotiated Trans Pacific Partnership -- which lets companies force
governments to get rid of their labor, environmental and safety rules in
confidential tribunals -- say it's all worth it because it will deliver
growth and jobs to the stagnant economies of the rich world.

But a new working paper from
Jerome Capaldo and Alex Izurieta, economists from Tufts University's
Global Development and Environment Institute and Jomo Kwame Sundaram --
formerly the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic
Development takes a critical, independent look at the economic modeling
performed by the TPP's proponents and finds it based on a set of
nonsensical, nonstandard assumptions about how economies perform.

The researchers revisited the
pro-TPP research using a "realistic" set of modeling assumptions, based
on the widely accepted United Nations Global Policy Model (GPM). When
they re-run the numbers on the TPP's impact on jobs, they come back with
a stark finding: developed nations that sign TPP can expect to
hemorrhage jobs by the tens of thousands -- and poor countries will gain
few, if any jobs from those losses.

TPP would generate net losses of
GDP in the United States and Japan. For the United States, they project
that GDP would be 0.54 percent lower than it would be without TPP, 10
years after the treaty enters into force. Japan’s GDP is projected to
decrease 0.12 percent.

Economic gains would be
negligible for other participating countries – less than one percent
over ten years for developed countries and less than three percent for
developing ones. These projections are similar to previous findings that
TPP gains would be small for many countries.

TPP would lead to employment
losses in all countries, with a total of 771,000 lost jobs. The United
States would be the hardest hit, with a loss of 448,000 jobs. Developing
economies participating in the agreement would also suffer employment
losses, as higher competitive pressures force them to curtail labor
incomes and increase production for export.

TPP would lead to higher
inequality, as measured by changes in the labor share of national
income. The authors foresee competitive pressures on labor income
combining with employment losses to push labor shares lower,
redistributing income from labor to capital in all countries.

In the
United States, this would exacerbate a multi-decade downward trend.

TPP would lead to losses in GDP
and employment in non-TPP countries. In large part, the loss in GDP
(3.77 percent) and employment (879,000) among non-TPP developed
countries would be driven by losses in Europe, while developing country
losses in GDP (5.24%) and employment (4.45 million) reflect projected
losses in China and India.

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